Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Government.

This article is an updated version in Swedish of my article on the emergence and history of the Scandinavian Pentecostal Movement published as "The Development of Pentecostalism in Scandinavian Countries" (in:) William K. Kay & Anne E. Dyer (editors), 2011, European Pentecostalism. In rough outlines, it presents the history of the Pentecostal movements in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, concentrating on common trends, cooperation, similarities and differences.

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Alvarsson, Jan-Åke

Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

A brief introduction to the establishment and structure of Pentecostalism in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. The importance of Andrew G. Johnson, T. B. Barratt, Lewi Pethrus and other leaders is discussed and connections between the movements are highlighted.

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Alvarsson, Jan-Åke

Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

In southern Bolivia, the ‘Weenhayek people, traditional foragers, have returned to their old ways, at least symbolically. During a cultural festival in 2004 this was openly and publicly manifested with traditional outfit, old songs, and signs in the ‘Weenhayek language. For around half a century their music and language had been muted. Their traditional clothing had been gone even longer. The reason for this switch in attitude towards their own heritage raises questions about the formation of ethnic identity - ethnogenesis as well as ethnoregenesis - in general.

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Alvarsson, Jan-Åke

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Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

Cartledge, Mark

University of Birmingham.

The Family in Pentecostalism2011In: Pentecostudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, ISSN 2041-3599, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 143-146Article in journal (Other academic)

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Alvarsson, Jan-Åke

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Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

The idea of the democratic promise is equality and freedom for all. But how can it be that we participate in the democratic electoral process and which meaning do we put into our participation? This study takes us through the democratic idea from an anthropological perspective and try to give an interpretation of the phenomenon of electoral participation. The essay starts with describing the anthropological view on democracy and then turns to the output in Pierre Bourdieu's theories of the election as a mysterious and concealing ritual. This is followed by interviews with people where I simply ask them why they get involved in electoral processes. I find the answer that participation depends on the logical idea that democracy has implemented in my informants and to vote has become the rational and logical, rather than mysterious.

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Andersson Trovalla, Ulrika

Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology.

The Nigerian city of Jos used to be seen as a peaceful place, but in 2001 it was struck by clashes that arose from what was largely understood as issues of ethnic and religious belonging. The event, which would become known as ‘the crisis’, was experienced as a rupture and a loss of what the city had once been, and as the starting point of a spiral of violence that has continued up to today. With the crisis, Jos changed. Former friends became enemies, and places that had been felt to be safe no longer were so. Previous truths were thrown into confusion, and Jos’s inhabitants found themselves more and more having to manoeuvre in an unstable world coloured by fear and anger. Life in Jos became increasingly hard to predict, and people searched for different ways forward, constantly trying out new interpretations of the world. This book, which is inspired by pragmatism, analyses the processes that were shaping the emergent city of Jos and its inhabitants in the aftermath of the crisis. At its core are some of Jos’s practitioners of traditional medicine. As healers, diviners, and providers of spells to protect from enemies or solve conflicts, they had special skills to influence futures that were becoming more and more unpredictable. Still, the medical practitioners were as vulnerable to the changing circumstances as everyone else. Their everyday lives and struggles to find their footing and ways forward under the changing circumstances are used as a point of departure to explore larger wholes: life during times characterised by feelings of uncertainty, fragmentation, fear, and conflict – in Jos as a city and Nigeria as a nation.

In this study, Michael Barrett explores the relationship between adulthood and historical processes in a rural district of Western Zambia. Approaching the life cycle from a perspective of social practice, the potential and limits of conditioning is illuminated through ethnography and life histories of Mbunda people in Kalabo District of Western Province. Situated between the Zambezi River and the Angolan border, the district suffered harsh economic decline during the last decades of the 20th century, creating a demanding social environment for young people in need of its resources for livelihood, household formation, and marriage. The study traces young people’s life paths in time and space, between urban and rural areas and through the ebb and flow of social relationships. Concerns like male and female initiation, marriage, style, and livelihood are examined and put in the context of longstanding idioms of sociality as well as global influences. Through an historical perspective on social cohorts, the dissertation throws light on the temporal conditions of adulthood facing people in rural Zambia. With a theoretical framework grounded in regional social landscapes and attuned to the realities of particular persons, broader issues like historicity, power, gender and creativity are examined through the prism of adulthood.